NOTES FROM LONDON.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1113, 21 February 1872, Page 3

NOTES FROM LONDON.

The following notes are by the London correspondent of the Scottman : — REPUBLICANISM Df ENGLAND. I have seen a private telegram sent by an ardent Republican of Birmingham to a friend in London, respecting Mr Bradlaugh's reception in Stourbridge on Monday evening. According to this account, the authorities took the greatest precautions to prevent a disturbance, Stourbridge being literally filled with policemen from the surrounding towns. The meeting was a crowded and most enthusiastic one, but everything passed off in an orderly manner, and Mr Bradlaugh was in no way molested, notwithstanding the threats of Lord Lyttelton and the local magistracy that they would place him under arrest. The subject of his address was, "The impeachment of the House of Brunswick," and every attack oa the Monarchy was vociferously applauded. CATTIJS'BBBKDINOEXPBRIMENTIN AMERICA. An important breeding experiment is, I hear, about to be tried in the United States. Mr William Emerson Baker, of RidgehUl, Wellesley (Mass.), has brought several bisons to his farm, and proposes to try the effect of crossing them with Jersey, Ayrshire, and Durham stocks. If the wild buffaloes of the prairie can be tamed and domesticated in this manner, it will be an enormous addition to the food resources of the country. Vast herds of these animals are still roaming about. The milk of the buffalo cow is rich and plentiful, and the reputation of buffalo rump as a delicacy of the table has reached even the Old World. Mr Baker, who is known as a very enterprising grazier and

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stock farmer, is very sanguine on the subject^ ■■ . THE SUICIDE OF COUNT OIHGENTI. Galignani gives some further details of the suicide of Coiint Girgenti. .He blew his brains out with' a pistol, but the Bhot, badly directed, did not kill him instantaneously/ as he lived long enough to receive thejast offices of the Cbnjnon. His young wife bore up bravely until all was over, when her emotion complely overpowered her. The deceased Prince was a man of rare energy. Formerly a, lieutenant in the Austrian Army, he was present in that capacity at the battle of Sadowa, and having traversed the enemy's lines with despatches, received one of the decorations, only forty of which were dis-; tributed during the whole campaign. In 1868 he served as a colonel- of Spanish Hussars at the battle of Alcolea, where he was wounded. The widow has decided to remain at Lucerne for some days. She will-be joined there by Queen Isabella, the King of Naples, the Archduke Reginer, and the Archduchess Maria. The Infanta Isabella, thus rendered a widow at. twenty, has an annual income exceeding 60X),0U0fr., and is expected totake up her residence at Vienna with the Archduchess Maria. ; . THKItUSSIAW MINISTER AT WASHINGTON. " A very awkward and uncomfortable circumstance connected with the Visit of the Grand Duke Alexis io New York was the bad terms on which, the American Government were with the Russian ■ Minister, M. Catacazy. It is no secret that: the President had applied to the Czar to remove him, and this application has been complied with. The charge against M. Catacazy is that he intrigued ; against the completion of the AngloAmerican Treaty, and even went the length Jof either writing or inspiring j qffenaive articles in various American \ newspapers, which were intended to discreclit the Government, and to create a J b.adifeflling against the treaty. So flagrant a broach of diplomatic etiquette could not be overlooked by the President; and hence remonstrance with M. Catacazy, and afterwards a demand for his recall. The Russian Minister, on the other hand, denied that he committed the offence alleged, and attributed the coldness between himself and the American Government to feminine influence. It appears thai Madame Catacazy is not generally received in. diplomatic and official circles, andher huaband was thus brought into unpleasant relations with the President and his Honrt— at least, so he says. Iff* NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENT. lam told thatthe "new social movement"still vnovea, or at leastthat attempts are jstill made to move it. I have just Been shown' a letter written by Mr Scott Russell, in which he says— " The present state of the matter is this — the Council of Workmen stand fast by the seven resolutions. iTho Peers who signed their official acceptance of the documents they have published stand fast by their signatures!" I have reason to believe that in a few days •we shall hear something more concerning ! thisaffair. - . „ | ,;■ There has been from the first so much mystification about, the New Social Alliance, that yoiir readers will be glad to learn, on the very highest authority, &* present state of the negotiations opened between the Legislative and Working Men's Councils. The disclaimers published by several members, or supposed members, of the former body have produced a general impression thatthe bubble lias* bbrst, and that the scheme for united political but not party action between members of either House of Parliament, and certain representatives of the operative class, is definitively abandoned. This, however, is by no means the case ; and if the?, following facts are carefully considered, it' will be seen that the disclaimers of iheiPeers, on which so much stress has been laid, do not really possess so much significance as at first sight appeared! In the first place, eight members of the Legislative Council had already signed the document; which they have published, and in which they accept the propositions made toihem by Mr Scott RusselL Again, the fact should not be lost sight of that the 'seven* resolutions adopted by the Council of Working Men, and printed with their ttiriutds; "formed the subject of the propositions made by Mr Russell to the members of the Legislative 'Council. It mustj bo also remembered that at least fbtrrof the Peers originally named as belonging to tlus Legislative Council never were members of it, although one of them had been invited to become- a member, so that their denial was quite justified. On the other hand, however, a certain number of the actual members of the Legislative Council remain staunch and true to the programme, and have never written a single word in repudiation of it. When all these circumstances .arejaken into consideration, it will be fcew that the two or three disclaimers' of and ".Proletarianism," which words had been used in the version of , the document first publishod in the Scotsman of the 10th October, although v hasty apd. .unwise, wew not altogether unwarranted. Finally?? it should be borne in mind that tha Beven resolutions were never signed either by the Council of Working Men ,qr i; by the Council of Legislators, though they were accepted • by both as a basis for mutual consultation, negotiation, and legislation. In conformity with these arrangements, the Conncu of Working Men had appointed *tib^coromittees to draw up proposals for legislation; to be laid before the , Council of Legislators, who on that basis were then to prepare such acts of legislation as they should think fit. Further details as to the progress of the negotiations : Blnce'thfe return of Mr Scott Rweell horn the Continent cannot now be given without a betrayal of confidence ; but it may be stated broadly that neither party have abandoned their original programme, or despair of its ultim site success.